Lemon

Citrus limon is a medium, evergreen tree of the Rutaceae family. It is characterized by its aromatic sour taste. [...] About Grown mainly for its juice, this well-known yellow citrus fruit is used widely for culinary and other domestic purposes throughout the world. Citrus

Peach

domesticated and cultivated for its fruit. The description ‘persica’ refers to the popularity of the tree in Persia when it was introduced there. The tree’s [...] tree’s fruit is usually sweet and juicy and it is called peach or nectarine. The peach belongs to the genus Prunus (just like the cherry, apricot, almond [...] the almond, the peach also belongs to the subgenus Amygdalus , because of its hard and corrugated seed shell. Commercially, peaches and nectarines are sold

Lettuce

to the daisy family, Asteraceae. It is a hardy annual that is easy to cultivate and most often grown for its leaves. It is, however, often plagued on by

Mango

‘common mango’ or ‘Indian mango’, Mangifera indica , found its way to the rest of the world and it has become one of the largest cultivated products in the [...] the tropics. Mango trees grow up to 35-40 meters (115-131 feet) tall and its crown can expand to 10 metres (33 feet) wide. The trees can grow really old [...] old and from some species of trees, mangoes can be harvested for 300 years. It takes three to six months for mangoes to ripen.

Mediterranean fruit fly

does not survive sub-zero winter temperatures.It is well named as ‘Mediterranean’, after the area in which it survives in Europe and North Africa (virtually [...] range of unrelated fruits, in fact, practically all the tree fruit crops. It has also been recorded from wild hosts belonging to a large number of families [...] Mediterranean fly The adult Mediterranean fruit fly is about 4-5 mm long. It has bright emerald green eyes suffused with reddish brown. The thorax is black

Anagyrus vladimiri

wasp examines the host with its antennae for several seconds, then turns its caudal end towards the mealybug and inserts its ovipositor between the wax [...] vladimiri lays its eggs inside the body of the mealybug. Upon hatching, the larvae feed on the internal tissues of the mealybug, gradually consuming it from within [...] in host feeding, where the adult female wasp feeds on the body fluids of its mealybug hosts. This behavior serves a dual purpose, including nutritional

Amazone Plants continues the path of organic cultivation

The company has focused on biological plant protection since it was founded. However, its highly automated production system makes this type of plant [...] Scheffers describes biological plant protection as a godsend. ‘It is going very well indeed. It would be unthinkable if we still had to keep using chemical [...] owned by Lex Scheffers and Fred van Zijl did not immediately have the wind at its back but the business started to take off in 2015. In 2019, the tomato nursery

Citrus thrips

Even though citrus thrips is an important pest, it is unlikely to be on the fruit at harvest, so it’s not considered a quarantine risk on fresh fruit exports [...] originally described from various localities in South Africa and is indigenous. It occurs throughout Southern Africa, East Africa, Egypt and Yemen. Citrus thrips [...] tissues or young fruit and can take 6-24 days to hatch depending on temperature. It is the second instar larvae that are responsible for most of the feeding damage

Avocado

Mexico. Its nick name points to its fruit which is botanically speaking a large berry with only one seed. The berry is green-skinned and fleshy and its shape

Olive

botanical name of the olive. It is a small tree species in the family Oleaceae. The olive tree is an evergreen tree or shrub. It is native to the Mediterranean [...] important is the olive fruit fly ( Dacus oleae or Bactrocera oleae) which lays its eggs in the olive. Also the fungus cycloconium oleaginum and the bacteria